What this is - A step-by-step tutorial on how to host an offline basemap for other GeoSpatial applications to use.
Specific steps are documented in the following notebook
Publication of project on Towards Data Science (TDS)
- Running: Python 3.7.9
- Using: pip 20.2.4
- OS: Windows 10
| Filename | Functionality |
|---|---|
| activate_env.bat | activate virtual environment .env and upgrade pip on Windows OS |
| pip_freeze.bat | output all python packages into requirements.txt file and overwrites it |
| pip_install_requirements.bat | pip install all python packages based on requirements.txt file |
| run_jupyter_notebook.bat | run jupyter notebook on port 8889 |
| python/scripts/01_stream_tiles.bat | run python script stream_tileimages.py i.e. start streaming map tile images and save into local folders |
| transform_to_mbtiles.bat & python/scripts/02_transform_to_mbtiles.bat | use mbutil lib to package tile image into mbtiles file |
| python/scripts/03_run_flask_app.bat | run python script serve_web_app.py and navigate to http://localhost:9000 to view basemap |
- The folder
python_scriptsruns independently of the jupyter notebook. The jupyter notebook is for first-time users and used for illustrations sake. - Note: The jupyter notebook had been developed in a python virtual environment created via the command
virtualenv .env
A few things to note in this Git Repo:
.mbutilhas been included so users may skip the step of downloading the library from https://github.com/mapbox/mbutil- The .bat file named: transform_to_mbtiles.bat can be run to package a folder of tile images and output a mbtiles file. Do change the parameters inside the .bat file.
- The folder python_scripts contains numbered .bat files which can be run directly in the order. For users who wish to execute a script instead of the jupyter notebook.